Andrea Quattrini

• B.Sc., Millersville University of Pennsylvania
• M.Sc., University of North Carolina - Wilmington
• Ph.D., Temple University

Learn more about ongoing research in the Quattrini Lab

• Anthozoa
• Anemones
• Black Corals (Antipatharia)
• Azooxanthellate & Zooxanthellate Corals
• Fossil Corals
• Octocorallia

Evolution and Ecology of Marine Biodiversity, Invertebrates, Corals, Deep Sea

Journal Article

• Cordes, Erik E., Gasbarro, Ryan, Quattrini, Andrea M., Stabbins, April, Georgian, Samuel E., Carney, Robert S., and Fisher, Charles R. 2025. "Do Chemosynthetic and Coral Communities Defy Deep‐Sea Ecological Paradigms?" Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34, (4). https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70039.
• McFadden, Catherine S., Erickson, Katie L., Lane, Audra, Nassongole, Bibiana, Aguilar, Steven, Dunakey, Sabra K., Durkin, Kathleen M., Lalas, Jue A. A., Kushida, Yuka, Macrina, Laura, Minor, Natalie P., Morales-Paredes, Mildred, Nelson, Josephine, Peddada, Asha, Poole, Sophie, Porto, Rafael, Purow-Ruderman, Risa, Snyder, Karen E., Wismar, Theo, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Baria-Rodriguez, Maria, Benzoni, Francesca, Huang, Danwei, Reimer, James D., Paulay, Gustav et al. 2025. "Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific." Scientific Reports, 15, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98790-7.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Morrissey, Declan, and McCartin, Luke J. 2025. "A new soft coral species from the Gulf of Mexico (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Parasphaerascleridae)." Zootaxa, 5601, (3) 545–557. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.3.8.
• Sarmiento, Adriana, Calixto-Botía, Iván, Julio-Rodríguez, Tatiana, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Sánchez, Juan A. 2025. "Uncovering the Evolutionary History in Lineage of Caribbean Octocorals: Phylogenomics Reveals Unrecognized Diversity in Eunicea." Diversity, 17, (3). https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030173.
• Wood, Annemarie, McCartin, Luke, Herrera, Santiago, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Collins, Allen G. 2025. "Anthozoan eDNA primer set characterizes Ctenophora and Medusozoa inhabiting mesophotic and deep waters off the Gulf Coast of the southern USA." Frontiers in Marine Science, 12 1535149. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1535149.
• Benedict, Charlotte, Delgado, Alonso, Pen, Isabel, Vaga, Claudia, Daly, Marymegan, and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. "Sea anemone (Anthozoa, Actiniaria) diversity in Mo’orea (French Polynesia)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108118.
• Capel, Kátia C. C., Zilberberg, Carla, Carpes, Raphael M., Morrison, Cheryl L., Vaga, Claudia F., Quattrini, Andrea M., Zb Quek, Randolph, Huang, Danwei, Cairns, Stephen D., and Kitahara, Marcelo V. 2024. "How long have we been mistaken? Multi-tools shedding light into the systematics of the widespread deep-water genus Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 (Scleractinia)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107994.
• Connelly, Michael T., Catapang, Mary Grace, and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. "Unlocking the treasure trove: leveraging dry coral specimens for museum genomics." Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02525-5.
• DeLeo, Danielle M., Bessho-Uehara, Manabu, Haddock, Steven H. D., McFadden, Catherine S., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. "Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626.
• Fuller, Nikki, McMahon, Emily, North, Allison, Petty, A. J., Tzetzis, Chryssanthi, Calus, Jacob, Sekarore, Abisage, Rosado, Gabriel, Patton, Erin, Cappiello, Julia, Quattrini, Andrea M., Cantwell, Kasey, Wagner, Daniel, Kennedy, Brian R. C., Morrow, Thomas, Candio, Samuel, Soule, S. A., Michel, Anna P. M., and Gerringer, Mackenzie E. 2024. "Observations of trash in the deep tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea." Marine pollution bulletin, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117182.
• Guendulain-Garcia, Sergio, Banaszak, Anastazia T., Álvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Lopez-Perez, Andr. 2024. "Three-dimensional morphological variation and physical functionality of Caribbean corals." Coral Reefs, 43, (2) 405–413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02472-1.
• Horowitz, Jeremy, Opresko, Dennis M., Herrera, Santiago, Hansel, Colleen M., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. "Ameripathidae, a new family of antipatharian corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Hexacorallia, Antipatharia)." ZooKeys, 1203 355–375. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1203.121411.
• McCartin, Luke, Saso, Emma, Vohsen, Samuel A., Pittoors, Nicole, Demetriades, Penny, McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, Santiago. 2024. "Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment." PeerJ, 12. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18607.
• Morrissey, Declan, Allcock, A. L., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. "A new genus of bamboo coral (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae) from the Whittard Canyon, Ireland, Northeast Atlantic." Invertebrate Systematics, 38, (9). https://doi.org/10.1071/IS24021.
• Morrissey, Declan, Gordon, Jessica D., Saso, Emma, Bilewitch, Jaret P., Taylor, Michelle L., Hayes, Vonda, McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Louise Allcock, A. 2024. "Corrigendum to “Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae)” [Mol. Phylogen. Evolut. 188 (2023) 107910]." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108044.
• Poliseno, Angelo, Quattrini, Andrea M., Lau, Yee Wah, Pirro, Stacy, Reimer, James D., and McFadden, Catherine S. 2024. "New mitochondrial gene order arrangements and evolutionary implications in the class Octocorallia." Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2024.2416173.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., McCartin, Luke J., Easton, Erin E., Horowitz, Jeremy, Wirshing, Herman H., Bowers, Hailey, Mitchell, Kenneth, González‐García, María Del P., Sei, Makiri, McFadden, Catherine S., and Herrera, Santiago. 2024. "Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals." Ecology and Evolution, 14, (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11254.
• Roa-Varón, Adela, Moulos, P., Harter, S., David, A., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, S. 2024. "Chromosome-level genome assembly of the Vermillion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens)." Preprint, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4927070/v1.
• Vaga, C. F., Seiblitz, I. G. L., Stolarski, J., Capel, K. C. C., Quattrini, A. M., Cairns, S. D., Huang, D., Quek, R. Z. B., and Kitahara, M. V. 2024. "300 million years apart: the extreme case of macromorphological skeletal convergence between deltocyathids and a turbinoliid coral (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)." Invertebrate Systematics, 38, (4). https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23053.
• Vaga, Claudia Francesca, Seiblitz, Isabela Galvao De Lossio E., Capel, Katia Cristina Cruz, Quattrini, Andrea M., Stolarski, Jaroslaw, Cairns, Stephen D., and Kitahara, Marcelo Visentini. 2024. "Untangling deep‐sea corals systematics: Description of a new family, Stephanocyathidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), through a genomic approach." Zoologica Scripta, 53, (4) 473–486. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12657.
• Weinnig, Alexis M., Aunins, Aaron W., Salamone, Veronica, Quattrini, Andrea M., Nizinski, Martha S., and Morrison, Cheryl L. 2024. "Population structure of Desmophyllum pertusum found along the United States eastern continental margin." BMC Research Notes, 17, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-024-06977-4.
• Bridge, Tom C. L., Cowman, Peter F., Quattrini, Andrea M., Bonito, Victor E., Sinniger, Frederic, Harii, Saki, Head, Catherine E. I., Hung, Julia Y., Halafihi, Tuikolongahau, Rongo, Teina, and Baird, Andrew H. 2023. "A tenuis relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the ‘Acropora tenuis ’ (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062.
• Cordes, Erik E., Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., Davies, Andrew J., Gasbarro, Ryan, Rhoads, Alexandria C., Lobecker, Elizabeth, Sowers, Derek, Chaytor, Jason D., Morrison, Cheryl L., Weinnig, Alexis M., Brooke, Sandra, Lunden, Jay J., Mienis, Furu, Joye, Samantha B., Quattrini, Andrea M., Sutton, Tracey T., McFadden, Catherine S., Bourque, Jill R., McClain-Counts, Jennifer, Andrews, Brian D., Betters, Melissa J., Etnoyer, Peter J., Wolff, Gary A., Bernard, Bernie B., Brooks, James M. et al. 2023. "Expanding our view of the cold-water coral niche and accounting of the ecosystem services of the reef habitat." Scientific Reports, 13, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45559-5.
• Goulding, Tricia C., Strong, Ellen E., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. "Target‐capture probes for phylogenomics of the Caenogastropoda." Molecular Ecology Resources, 23, (6) 1372–1388. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13793.
• Horowitz, Jeremy, Opresko, Dennis M., González-García, María del P., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. "Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico." ZooKeys, 1173 97–110. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1173.104141.
• Horowitz, Jeremy, Quattrini, Andrea M., Brugler, Mercer R., Miller, David J., Pahang, Kristina, Bridge, Tom C. L., and Cowman, Peter F. 2023. "Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, (2008). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1107.
• Morrissey, Declan, Gordon, Jessica D., Saso, Emma, Bilewitch, Jaret P., Taylor, Michelle L., Hayes, Vonda, McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Allcock, A. L. 2023. "Bamboozled! Resolving deep evolutionary nodes within the phylogeny of bamboo corals (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea: Keratoisididae)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107910.
• Ramos, Nina I., DeLeo, Danielle M., Horowitz, Jeremy, McFadden, Catherine S., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. "Selection in coral mitogenomes, with insights into adaptations in the deep sea." Scientific Reports, 13, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31243-1.
• Ramírez-Portilla, Catalina and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. "Perspectives on the Grey Zone of Species Delimitation With Notes on Invertebrates in the Marine Environment." Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 2, (2) 1–23. https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v2i2.9255.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Snyder, Karen E., Purow-Ruderman, Risa, Seiblitz, Isabela G. L., Hoang, Johnson, Floerke, Natasha, Ramos, Nina I., Wirshing, Herman H., Rodriguez, Estefanía, and McFadden, Catherine S. 2023. "Mito-nuclear discordance within Anthozoa, with notes on unique properties of their mitochondrial genomes." Scientific Reports, 13, (1) 7443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34059-1.
• DeLeo, Danielle M., Morrison, Cheryl L., Sei, Makiri, Salamone, Veronica, Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2022. "Genetic diversity and connectivity of chemosynthetic cold seep mussels from the US Atlantic margin." BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22, (1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02027-4.
• Seiblitz, I. G. L., Vaga, C. F., Capel, K. C. C., Cairns, Stephen D., Stolarski, J., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Kitahara, M. V. 2022. "Caryophylliids (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and mitochondrial gene order: Insights from mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenomics." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107565.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Herrera, Santiago, Adams, J. Mike, Grinyó, Jordi, Allcock, A. Louse, Shuler, Andrew, Wirshing, Herman H., Cordes, Erik E., and McFadden, Catherine S. 2022. "Phylogeography of Paramuricea: The Role of Depth and Water Mass in the Evolution and Distribution of Deep-Sea Corals." Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.849402.
• McFadden, Catherine S., van Ofwegen, Leen P., and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2022. "Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics." Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists, 1, (3). https://doi.org/10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735.
• Voolstra, Christian R., Quigley, Kate M., Davies, Sarah W., Parkinson, John Everett, Peixoto, Raquel S., Aranda, Manuel, Baker, Andrew C., Barno, Adam R., Barshis, Daniel J., Benzoni, Francesca, Bonito, Victor, Bourne, David G., Buitrago-López, Carol, Bridge, Tom C. L., Chan, Cheong Xin, Combosch, David J., Craggs, Jamie, Frommlet, Jörg C., Herrera, Santiago, Quattrini, Andrea M., Röthig, Till, Reimer, James D., Rubio-Portillo, Esther, Suggett, David J., Villela, Helena et al. 2021. "Consensus Guidelines for Advancing Coral Holobiont Genome and Specimen Voucher Deposition." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.701784.
• Glon, Heather, Quattrini, Andrea, Rodríguez, Estefanía, Titus, Benjamin M., and Daly, Marymegan. 2021. "Comparison of sequence-capture and ddRAD approaches in resolving species and populations in hexacorallian anthozoans." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107233.
• Frometa, Janessy, Etnoyer, Peter J., Quattrini, Andrea M., Herrera, Santiago, and Greig, Thomas W. 2021. "Genetic Divergence and Polyphyly in the Octocoral Genus Swiftia [Cnidaria: Octocorallia], Including a Species Impacted by the DWH Oil Spill." Diversity, 13, (4). https://doi.org/10.3390/d13040172.
• McFadden, Catherine S., Quattrini, Andrea M., Brugler, Mercer R., Cowman, Peter F., Dueñas, Luisa F., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Paz-García, David A., Reimer, James D., and Rodríguez, Estefanía. 2021. "Phylogenomics, Origin and Diversification of Anthozoans (Phylum Cnidaria)." Systematic Biology, 70, (4) 635–647. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa103.
• Galaska, Matthew P., Liu, Guangpeng, West, Destiny, Erickson, Katie, Quattrini, Andrea M., Bracco, Annalisa, and Herrera, Santiago. 2021. "Seascape Genomics Reveals Metapopulation Connectivity Network of Paramuricea biscaya in the Northern Gulf of Mexico." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.790929.
• Liu, Guangpeng, Bracco, Annalisa, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, Santiago. 2021. "Kilometer-Scale Larval Dispersal Processes Predict Metapopulation Connectivity Pathways for Paramuricea biscaya in the Northern Gulf of Mexico." Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.790927.
• Ramírez-Portilla, Catalina, Baird, Andrew H., Cowman, Peter F., Quattrini, Andrea M., Harii, Saki, Sinniger, Frederic, and Flot, Jean-François. 2021. "Solving the Coral Species Delimitation Conundrum." Systematic Biology, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab077.
• Stefanoudis, Paris V., Biancani, Leann M., Cambronero-Solano, Sergio, Clark, Malcolm R., Copley, Jonathan T., Easton, Erin, Elmer, Franziska, Haddock, Steven H. D., Herrera, Santiago, Iglesias, Ilysa S., Quattrini, Andrea M., Sigwart, Julia, Yesson, Chris, and Glover, Adrian G. 2021. "Moving conferences online: lessons learned from an international virtual meeting." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, (1961). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1769.
• Stolarski, Jarosław, Coronado, Ismael, Murphy, Jack G., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Janiszewska, Katarzyna, Mazur, Maciej, Gothmann, Anne M., Bouvier, Anne-Sophie, Marin-Carbonne, Johanna, Taylor, Michelle L., Quattrini, Andrea M., McFadden, Catherine S., Higgins, John A., Robinson, Laura F., and Meibom, Anders. 2021. "A modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeleton." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, (3). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013316117.
• Untiedt, Candice Bobby, Quattrini, Andrea M., McFadden, Catherine S., Alderslade, Phil A., Pante, Eric, and Burridge, Christopher P. 2021. "Phylogenetic Relationships Within Chrysogorgia (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia), a Morphologically Diverse Genus of Octocoral, Revealed Using a Target Enrichment Approach." Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 Article 599984. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.599984.
• Auscavitch, Steven R., Lunden, Jay J., Barkman, Alexandria, Quattrini, Andrea M., Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., and Cordes, Erik E. 2020. "Distribution of deep-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals across abiotic environmental gradients on three seamounts in the Anegada Passage." PeerJ, 8 Article e9523. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9523.
• Cowman, Peter F., Quattrini, Andrea M., Bridge, Thomas C. L., Watkins-Colwell, Gregory J., Fadli, Nur, Grinblat, Mila, Roberts, T. Edward, McFadden, Catherine S., Miller, David J., and Baird, Andrew H. 2020. "An enhanced target-enrichment bait set for Hexacorallia provides phylogenomic resolution of the staghorn corals (Acroporidae) and close relatives." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 153 Article 106944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106944.
• Erickson, Katie L., Pentico, Alicia, Quattrini, Andrea M., and McFadden, Catherine S. 2020. "New approaches to species delimitation and population structure of anthozoans: two case studies of octocorals using ultraconserved elements and exons." Molecular Ecology Resources, https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13241.
• Poliseno, Angelo, Santos, Maria Eduarda Alves, Kise, Hiroki, Macdonald, Brooks, Quattrini, Andrea M., McFadden, Catherine S., and Reimer, James Davis. 2020. "Evolutionary implications of analyses of complete mitochondrial genomes across order Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia)." Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58, (4) 858–868. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12380.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Rodríguez, Estefanía, Faircloth, Brant C., Cowman, Peter F., Brugler, Mercer R., Farfan, Gabriela A., Hellberg, Michael E., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Morrison, Cheryl L., Paz-García, David A., Reimer, James D., and McFadden, Catherine S. 2020. "Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time." Nature Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01291-1.
• Sánchez, Juan Armando, Neira-Ramírez, Lorena, Rodríguez-Bermúdez, Adriana, and Quattrini, Andrea. 2020. "Role-Playing to Foster 'Deep-Sea Exploration' Through Active and Virtual Learning: A Class-Design for Colombian Higher Education." Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 34, (3) 9–17. https://doi.org/10.5334/cjme.55.
• Bracco, Annalisa, Liu, Guangpeng, Galaska, Matthew P., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, Santiago. 2019. "Integrating physical circulation models and genetic approaches to investigate population connectivity in deep-sea corals." Journal of Marine Systems, 198 103189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2019.103189.
• Jiang, Justin B., Quattrini, Andrea M., Francis, Warren R., Ryan, Joseph F., Rodríguez, Estefanía, and McFadden, Catherine S. 2019. "A hybrid de novo assembly of the sea pansy (Renilla muelleri) genome." GigaScience, 8, (4). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz026.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., McClain-Counts, Jennifer, Artabane, Stephen J., Roa-Varon, Adela, McIver, Tara C., Rhode, Michael, and Ross, Steve W. 2019. "Assemblage structure, vertical distributions and stable-isotope compositions of anguilliform leptocephali in the Gulf of Mexico." Journal of fish biology, 94, (4) 621–647. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13933.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Wu, Tiana, Soong, Keryea, Jeng, Ming-Shiou, Benayahu, Yehuda, and McFadden, Catherine S. 2019. "A next generation approach to species delimitation reveals the role of hybridization in a cryptic species complex of corals." BMC evolutionary biology, 19, (1) 116. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1427-y.
• Uiblein, Franz, Nielsen, Jørgen G., Baldwin, Carole C., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Robertson, D. Ross. 2019. "Discovery of a Distinctive Spotted Color Pattern in the Cuskeel Neobythites unicolor (Teleostei, Ophidiidae) Based on Underwater-Vehicle Dives, with New Records from the Southern and Eastern Caribbean." Copeia, 107, (2) 277–286. https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-18-148.
• DeLeo, Danielle M., Herrera, Santiago, Lengyel, Stephen D., Quattrini, Andrea M., Kulathinal, Rob J., and Cordes, Erik E. 2018. "Gene expression profiling reveals deep-sea coral response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill." Molecular ecology, 27, (20) 4066–4077. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14847.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Faircloth, Brant C., Dueñas, Luisa F., Bridge, Tom C. L., Brugler, Mercer R., Calixto-Botía, Iván F., DeLeo, Danielle M., Forêt, Sylvain, Herrera, Santiago, Lee, Simon M. Y., Miller, David J., Prada, Carlos, Rádis-Baptista, Gandhi, Ramírez-Portilla, Catalina, Sánchez, Juan A., Rodríguez, Estefanía, and McFadden, Catherine S. 2018. "Universal target-enrichment baits for anthozoan (Cnidaria) phylogenomics: New approaches to long-standing problems." Molecular Ecology Resources, 18, (2) 281–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12736.
• McFadden, Catherine S., Haverkort-Yeh, Roxanne, Reynolds, Alexandra M., Halàsz, Anna, Quattrini, Andrea M., Forsman, Zac H., Benayahu, Yehuda, and Toonen, Robert J. 2017. "Species boundaries in the absence of morphological, ecological or geographical differentiation in the Red Sea octocoral genus Ovabunda (Alcyonacea: Xeniidae)." Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 112 174–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.025.
• Papacostas, Katherine, Rielly Carroll, Elizabeth, Georgian, Samuel, Long, Dustin, Devaul Princiotta, Sarah, Quattrini, Andrea, Reuter, Kim, and Freestone, Amy. 2017. "Biological Mechanisms of Marine Invasions." Marine Ecology Progress Series, 565 251–268. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12001.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., Singer, Randal, Roa-Varon, Adela, and Chaytor, Jason D. 2017. "Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 123 90–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.03.009.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Gómez, Carlos E., and Cordes, Erik E. 2017. "Environmental filtering and neutral processes shape octocoral community assembly in the deep sea." Oecologia, 183, (1) 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3765-4.
• Kennedy, Brian R. C., Quattrini, Andrea M., Cheadle, Michael J., Garcia-Moliner, Graciela, Chaytor, Jason, Ford, Michael, Lobecker, Meme, Sowers, Derek, McKenna, Lindsay, Cantwell, Kasey, Schmidt, Wilford, Jimenez, Manuel, Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., Shank, Timothy M., Scharer-Umpierre, Michelle, and Mah, Christopher L. 2016. "Oceano Profundo 2015: Exploring Puerto Rico's Seamounts, Trenches, and Troughs." Oceanography, 29, (1) 64–67.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. and Demopoulos, Amanda W. J. 2016. "Ectoparasitism on deep-sea fishes in the western North Atlantic: In situ observations from ROV surveys." International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 5, (3) 217–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2016.07.004.
• Radice, Veronica, Quattrini, Andrea, Wareham Hayes, Vonda, Edinger, Evan, and Cordes, Erik. 2016. "Vertical water mass structure in the North Atlantic influences the bathymetric distribution of species in the deep-sea coral genus Paramuricea." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 116, (253) 263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2016.08.014.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Baums, Iliana B., Shank, Timothy M., Morrison, Cheryl L., and Cordes, Erik E. 2015. "Testing the depth-differentiation hypothesis in a deepwater octocoral." Proceedings Biological Sciences, 282, (1807) 20150008. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0008.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Nizinski, Martha S., Chaytor, Jason D., Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., Roark, E. B., France, Scott C., Moore, Jon A., Heyl, Taylor, Auster, Peter J., Kinlan, Brian, Ruppel, Carolyn, Elliott, Kelley P., Kennedy, Brian R. C., Lobecker, Elizabeth, Skarke, Adam, and Shank, Timothy M. 2015. "Exploration of the Canyon-Incised Continental Margin of the Northeastern United States Reveals Dynamic Habitats and Diverse Communities." PLOS ONE, 10, (10) e0139904. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139904.
• Ross, Steve W., Rhode, Mike, and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2015. "Demersal fish distribution and habitat use within and near Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons, U.S. Middle Atlantic Slope." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 103 137154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2015.06.004.
• Ross, Steve, Brooke, Sandra, Quattrini, Andrea, Rhode, Mike, and Watterson, Carter. 2015. "A deep-sea community, including Lophelia pertusa, at unusually shallow depths in the western North Atlantic Ocean off northeastern Florida." Marine Biology, 162 635–648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-015-2611-2.
• Doughty, Cheryl L., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Cordes, Erik E. 2014. "Insights into the population dynamics of the deep-sea coral genus Paramuricea in the Gulf of Mexico." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 99 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.023.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Etnoyer, Peter J., Doughty, Cheryl, English, Lisa, Falco, Rosalia, Remon, Natasha, Rittinghouse, Matthew, and Cordes, Erik E. 2014. "A phylogenetic approach to octocoral community structure in the deep Gulf of Mexico." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 99 92–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.027.
• Fernholm, Bo, Norén, Michael, Kullander, Sven O., Quattrini, Andrea M., Zintzen, Vincent, Roberts, Clive D., Mok, Hin-Kiu, and Kuo, Chien-Hsien. 2013. "Hagfish phylogeny and taxonomy, with description of the new genus Rubicundus (Craniata, Myxinidae)." Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 51, (4) 296–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12035.
• Ilves, Katriina, Quattrini, Andrea, Westneat, Mark, Eytan, Ron, Chaplin, Gordon, Hertler, Heidi, and Lundberg, John. 2013. "Detection of Shifts in Coral Reef Fish Assemblage Structure Over 50 Years at Reefs of New Providence Island, the Bahamas Highlight the Value of the Academy of Natural Sciences' Collections in a Changing World." Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 162 61–87. https://doi.org/10.1635/053.162.0105.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Georgian, Samuel E., Byrnes, Luke, Stevens, Alex, Falco, Rosalia, and Cordes, Erik E. 2013. "Niche divergence by deep-sea octocorals in the genus Callogorgia across the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico." Molecular ecology, 22, (15) 4123–4140. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12370.
• Quattrini, Andrea M., Ross, Steve W., Carlson, Michael C. T., and Nizinski, Martha S. 2012. "Megafaunal-habitat associations at a deep-sea coral mound off North Carolina, USA." Marine Biology, 159, (5) 1079–1094. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-1888-7.
• Ross, Steve, Carlson, Michael, and Quattrini, Andrea. 2012. "The utility of museum records for documenting distributions of deep-sea corals off the southeastern United States." Marine Biology Research, 8 101–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2011.628680.
• White, Helen, Hsing, Pen-Yuan, Cho, Walter, Shank, Timothy, Cordes, Erik, Quattrini, Andrea, Nelson, Robert, Camilli, Richard, Demopoulos, Amanda, German, Christopher, Brooks, James, Roberts, Harry, Shedd, William, Reddy, Christopher, and Fisher, Charles. 2012. "Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, (50) 20303–20308. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118029109.
• Ilves, Katriina L., Kellogg, Loren L., Quattrini, Andrea M., Chaplin, Gordon W., Hertler, Heidi, and Lundberg, John G. 2011. "Assessing 50-Year Change in Bahamian Reef Fish Assemblages: Evidence for Community Response to Recent Disturbance?" Bulletin of Marine Science, 87, (3) 567–588. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1052.
• Davies, Andrew J., Duineveld, Gerard C. A., van Weering, Tjeerd C. E., Mienis, Furu, Quattrini, Andrea M., Seim, Harvey E., Bane, John M., and Ross, Steve W. 2010. "Short-term environmental variability in cold-water coral habitat at Viosca Knoll, Gulf of Mexico." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 57, (2) 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2009.10.012.
• Ross, Steve W., Quattrini, Andrea M., Roa-Varón, Adela Y., and McClain, Jennifer P. 2010. "Species composition and distributions of mesopelagic fishes over the slope of the north-central Gulf of Mexico." Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57, (21) 1926–1956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.05.008.
• Quattrini, Andrea, Partyka, Melissa, and Ross, Steve. 2009. "Aspects of the Reproductive Biology of the Skate Fenestraja plutonia (Garman) off North Carolina." Southeastern Naturalist, 8, (1) 55–70. https://doi.org/10.1656/058.008.0106.
• Ross, Steve W. and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2007. "The fish fauna associated with deep coral banks off the southeastern United States." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 54, (6) 975–1007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2007.03.010.
• Quattrini, Andrea and Ross, Steve. 2006. "Fishes associated with North Carolina shelf-edge hardbottoms and initial assessment of a proposed marine protected area." Bulletin of Marine Science, 79 137–163.
• Meister, H. S., Wyanski, David M., Loefer, Joshua K., Ross, Steve W., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Sulak, Kenneth J. 2005. "Further Evidence for the Invasion and Establishment of Pterois volitans (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) along the Atlantic Coast of the United States." Southeastern Naturalist, 4, (2) 193–206.
• Quattrini, A. M., Lindquist, D. G., Bingham, F. M., Lankford, T. E., and Govoni, J. J. 2005. "Distribution of larval fishes among water masses in Onslow Bay, North Carolina: implications for cross-shelf exchange." Fisheries Oceanography, 14, (6) 413–431. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00344.x.
• Quattrini, Andrea, Ross, Steve, Sulak, Ken, Necaise, Ann, Casazza, Tara, and Dennis, George. 2004. "Marine fishes new to continental United States waters, North Carolina, and the Gulf of Mexico." Southeastern Naturalist, 3 155–172. https://doi.org/10.1656/1528-7092(2004)003[0155:MFNTCU]2.0.CO;2.

Dataset

• Quattrini, Andrea. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 4 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27985334.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: Summary Data Inventory and Data Collections. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27997097.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 1 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27977787.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: Images. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27977484.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 2 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27980525.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 5 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.28000298.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 6 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.28000472.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: CTD and NAV Data. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27977457.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: Data Products. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27969879.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2025. [Dataset] Illuminating pelagic and benthic biodiversity in deep waters off Puerto Rico: SHIP folder 3 of 6. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27984431.V2.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. [Dataset] CTD and NAV Data. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27977457.V1.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2024. [Dataset] Data Products. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.27969879.V1.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. and Roa-Varón, Adela Y. 2024. [Dataset] Genome assemblies of vermilion snapper. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.26321938.
• Roa-Varon, Adela, Moulos, Panagiotis, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, Santiago. 2024. [Dataset] Bioinformatics Pipeline. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/data.9879974.v1.
• Roa-Varon, Adela, Quattrini, Andrea M., and Herrera, Santiago. 2024. [Dataset] Bioinformatics pipelines (Assembly & Annotation). Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.26198450.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. [Dataset] Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals. Distributed by National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.24319078.
• Quattrini, Andrea M. 2023. [Dataset] Mito-nuclear discordance within Anthozoa, with notes on unique properties of their mitochondrial genomes. Distributed by Washington, DC: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. https://doi.org/10.25573/DATA.21525147.V3.
• McIver, Tara C. and Quattrini, Andrea M. 2022. [Dataset] A Photo Guide to Deep-Sea Fishes of Coral, Canyon and Cold Seep Habitats along the U.S. Atlantic Margin. Distributed by Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.6804098.

Book Chapter

• Quattrini, Andrea M., Nizinski, Martha S., Lunden, Jay J., Mienis, Furu, Morrison, Cheryl L., Sautter, Leslie, Seim, Harvey, Todd, Robert E., and Reed, John. 2023. "Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the Southeastern United States." In Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World. Cordes, Erik and Mienis, Furu, editors. 91–126. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. In Coral Reefs of the World, 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40897-7_4.
• Chaytor, Jason D., Demopoulos, Amanda W. J., Brink, Uri S. ten, Baxter, Christopher D. P., Quattrini, Andrea M., and Brothers, Daniel S. 2016. "Assessment of canyon wall failure process from multibeam bathymetry and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) observations, U.S. Atlantic continental margin." In Submarine mass movements and their consequences: 7th international symposium part II. Lamarche, Geoffroy, Mountjoy, Joshu, Bull, Suzanne, Hubble, Tom, Krastel, Sebastian, Lane, Emily, Micallef, Aaron, Moscardelli, Lorena, Mueller, Christof, Pecher, Ingo, and Woelz, Susanne, editors. 103–113. Springer International Publishing; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. In Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_10.